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Seven Stories Up (2014)

by Laurel Snyder(Favorite Author)

4.09 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0375869174 (ISBN13: 9780375869174)

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English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Random House Books for Young Readers

review 1: I have always found something intriguing about stories that involve time travel. "Seven Stories Up" is no exception. It is set in the year 1987 (at least to start with). :-) A young girl named Annie lives in Atlanta, Georgia, but when the story opens, she is traveling with her mom to Baltimore to see her grandmother for the very first time. Her grandmother's days are numbered, so Annie's mother decides it is time to make the voyage to see her. This grandmother lives in an old hotel that no longer operates with guests. Cobwebs and dust cover what was once the grand lobby. Annie is both nervous and excited to meet her grandmother, as she does not have a relationship with anyone in her family outside of her own mother. However, the experience she has does not go well. Her gra... morendmother is weak in bed, but she is still an overbearing and bitter sort of person. Annie is devastated. Oddly, that night, when Annie goes to bed, she is miraculously transported back in time to the year 1937. She awakes in the same room inside of the hotel where she fell asleep, though it looks different. Then, she meets a girl named Molly whom the room belongs to. It is not long before she realizes that Molly is her grandmother when she was a little girl. Molly is friendly and lively as a child, but she suffers from asthma and her wealthy family that owns the hotel keeps her quarantined by herself in a room. Annie brings brightness to Molly's dismal existence, and literally alters history as a result. To see their relationship blossom and to learn about their adventures in and around the hotel, you will have to read the book. Besides being an enjoyable and pleasant read, I love how the author, Laurel Snyder, weaved in historical details. She explains more about what particular events she weaved into the tale in the very back of the book, and explains that although the book is a work of fiction, it took her three years to write because of her desire to be accurate in her information regarding the time period. I look forward to reading the continuation titled: "Bigger Than a Bread Box," which tells the tale of Annie's daughter.
review 2: If you've ever imagined what it would be like to live earlier in history, this book delves into earlier times when Annie, who just finished fifth-grade, goes to visit her grandmother in Baltimore. Annie knows little of her mom's mother, and what she sees isn't what she hoped for. When Annie falls asleep in the deteriorated hotel owned by the family, she is startled to wake up in a much different time. There are bits of history woven into this story, seen through the eyes of two young girls, one living in it but unaware of much, and the other having already seen the future. less

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